The Gold Box D&D games were awesome for their time and I think they were generally well reviewed. There were some other great fantasy RPG series from that time as well like the Bard's Tale series and the Ultima series. I loved the later Baldur's Gate series as well. The Gold Box games (and Baldur's Gate which was really the spiritual successor anyway) let you have an entire party of characters which was nice. I don't know if there are any more modern computer RPGs that let you do that. You didn't have to have a C64 to play the Gold Box games though you did have to have a computer. I think they were available for the Apple II and PC (DOS) as well. Pool of Radiance even came out on the NES though I don't think any of the other Gold Box games did.
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you just brought back a bunch of memories there. I played Baldur's Gate so much and probably saved at least 20 times per screen since it was permadeath if you lost a party member.
Ultima consumed a lot of my time even though our family computer was not powerful enough to enjoy it properly. I didn't know any better though since I had never seen it on any other system. It would be a year later that a friend of mine had it on a "real" computer and I saw how fast the game was supposed to be and was just blown away.